Railway-gate



(No Model.) E. E. FRAUNPELTER.

RAILWAY GATE.

PatentedSe-pt. 8, 1896..

"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMIT EQFRAUNFELTER, or ASHVILLE, OHIO.

RAILWAY-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 567,340, dated September 8, 1896.

' Application filed May 18, 1896. Serial No. 592,022. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, EMMIT E. FRAUNFELTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashville, in the county of Pickaway and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway- Gates; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the'same.

My invention has relation to railway-gates, and more particularly to that class of automatic gates which are normally open at a crossing for the passage of teams and pedestrians and which are closed automatically by an approaching train and after the train has passed resume their normal open position; and the object is to provide a device of this kind that will be simple, reliable, and effective; and to these ends the novelty consists in the construction combination,and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same figures of reference indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a railway track and crossing illustrating my invention, showing the gates closed to the crossing; and Fig. 2 is a top plan view showing the gates open.

1 denotes a section of railway-track, and 2 the crossing at a right angle thereto, composed of the sills 3 and planks 4L.

5 denotes the gates, each of which is shown .7 in this instance as consisting of an inverted- U-shaped bar 6, journaled in bearings 7 secured to the sills 3,and provided with cranked ends 8, and 9 denotes the connecting-rods, one end of each of which is connected to one of the cranks 8 and its other end to the longer arm of a lever 11, fulcrumed in a recess 12 in a cross-tie secured to and between the rails. The shorter arm of this lever 11 is pivoted to the movable end of an actuating-bar 13, the opposite end of which is pivoted to the crosstie 15, and in its normal position this actuating-bar 13 sets on an inclination toward the track, as shown in Fig. 2, and when a train is approaching from either direction the flange of the wheel presses the bar out from the rail,

. as shownin Fig. 1, and consequently moves the shorter arm of the lever 11, the longer arm of which, through the medium of its connecting-rod, operates the crank 8to raise the gate and throw the bar 5 above the crossing 2 and close the passage on the approach and during the passage of the train. After the train has passed the weight of the bar 5 causes it to fall to the ground and the crank, connecting-rods, levers, and actuating-bars assume their normal position. There are two sets of these actuating-bars, levers, connecting-rods, and cranks for each track, but as they are all counterparts of each other the description and operation of one will answer for all. r v

Fromthe foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring further explanation. In the present instance I have shown two sets of operating-bars for the crossing, which is for a single track, but when the gate is used in connection with a double track it is obvious that only one set of bars will be necessary for each track.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention,I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what Iclaim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s-

A railway-crossing gate, comprising the inverted-U-shaped bar 6 journaled in bearings 7 secured to the sides, and provided with the integral cranked end 8, the connecting-rod 9, the outer end of which is pivoted to said crank-arm 8, a lever 11 fulcrumed in arecess 12 in one of the cross-ties,and having its longer arm pivoted to the inner end of said connecting-rod, in combination with the actuatingbar 13, pivoted at one end to the tie 15, and its opposite end pivoted to the shorter arm of the lever 11, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto-affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMMIT E. FRAUNFELTER. Witnesses:

CHARLES RILEY, G. A. HooK. 

